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Mickey Z
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the Department of Homeland Security.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Our dead vs. their dead
As tragic as the Virginia Tech shootings are, let’s face it: 32 dead is a slow day in U.S.-occupied Iraq. “Those whose lives were taken did nothing to deserve their fate,” President Bush said. “They were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.” He would know. In America, we have the luxury of mourning our dead for days or even years (see 9/11). If Iraqis tried to “pull together” and “come to grips” with every massacre of innocents...well, you get the idea.
In America, we post photos of the man responsible for the latest mass murder on the covers of our newspapers and magazines—calling him a “madman” and a “psycho.” In Iraq, those to blame for hundreds of thousands of deaths remain as nameless and faceless as their victims. They’re just doing the job they’ve volunteered to do.
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